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Holiday Caroling Tag – Game of the Week

Keeping Kids in Motion

For the next few weeks, I’ll be posting a holiday game of the week. Don’t miss out! Be sure to subscribe for notifications. This week’s game is called, HOLIDAY CAROLING TAG. Scrooge, Grinch, and Jack Frost are once again feeling grumpy this holiday season.

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Physical Education Training Produces Better Academic Teachers

Physical Education Update

One thing about physical educators is that they realize the value of making lessons fun. They also realize that an active child is a child better able to learn. This often applies for those physical educators who teach academic subjects. A great example is Marilyn Rodgers of Hernando High school in Desoto Mississipi, an experienced physical educator whose teaching skills were considered too valuable to be wasted on “gym.” Instead she was placed in a history classroom where she remain

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Italian Football Stadiums - The Complete Guide to all 64 Stadiums

The Sporting

A guide to the wonderful world of all 64 Italian football stadiums! One would only expect that the land that built the Colosseum as a symbol of entertainment would also have great stadiums and be super passionate about modern-day sports such as football. And they would be absolutely correct! The worldwide passion for football is shared by both the Italian players and their fierce supporters.

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How To Gain Maximum Benefits Following Your Team’s World Cup Break

First Beat

With the FIFA World Cup in full swing, many European soccer teams are having a short break during this time. This break period allows teams to build their strategies, work with their conditioning elements and enables the players not playing for their national teams to recover from their demanding schedule. From a conditioning point of view the question arises: What should the teams and players consider to gain maximum benefits from the break?

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Reimagine the Role of PE to Reconnect With Your Students

Speaker: Jeremy Kellem, M.Ed. - Educational Strategist, Former Athlete, and CEO/Founder of W.I.N. (We Impact Now, LLC)

For many students, physical education is critical to becoming active and developing healthy routines. But how is this possible anymore with the repercussions of the pandemic? Years of COVID-19, social distancing, and virtual learning have all had a profound effect on students, which means educators need to adjust their classes accordingly. The good news is that P.E. can still play a vital role in helping students intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially.

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Torn: My Approach to the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar

The Everlearner

It was 4th July 1990, relatively late in the evening. I was surrounded by coloured glass, including glass in my hair and in my lap?. Stuart Pearce, captain of my boyhood team, Nottingham Forest, was standing four or five metres outside of the penalty area waiting to make his customary long run up to smash a penalty at the goal. I took a deep breath simultaneously with the England player on the screen.

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The 5 Best Belgian Footballers of all-time

The Sporting

The 5 Greatest ever Belgian Footballers While often underappreciated due to a lack of major international honours, Belgium is still widely renowned for the amount of talent it produces on a regular basis. But who are Belgium’s greatest players? The Belgians tend to perform well in major tournaments despite a dearth of silverware; and these performances stretch across different eras, illustrating a collective mentality gotten through patriotism and pride rather than solely individual quality.

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PE Games – Christmas Activities

The PE Specialist

What’s Up Phys Ed Friends! So, let’s be honest, you (and your students) are probably counting down the days to Christmas Break – am I right? Expect your students to be off the walls as they await all the joys that 2 weeks out of school and the promise of brand new toys can bring. Don’t […].

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DIY Neon Ice Activity – Combining Crafts & Science

S&S

Sometimes the coolest results can come from the simplest ingredients. Here is a perfect example of that! How2PlayToday has shared a step-by-step activity on how to make neon ice. It produces some amazing outcomes, but don’t use it to cool … Read More. The post DIY Neon Ice Activity – Combining Crafts & Science appeared first on S&S Blog.

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PE Students Need Senior Citizen Role-Models

Physical Education Update

One of the primary goals of any physical education program is the development of our students’ ability to maintain an active lifestyle throughout their lives. I’m the beneficiary of my own school experience in PE and sport. I still play a weekly game of old-man’s basketball – in my old high school gym with some of my old high school schoolmates – in a ritual that has been part of that school since the mid-1960’s.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

Physical education is an important part of the development of the whole person: physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. By providing education in movement competency, education on using movement to develop the ability to be self-regulated and motivated, and education through movement to develop ‘habits of mind’ for positive and constructive engagement with others, PE provides a basis for personal and community health and wellbeing.

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Starting a bulk - 8 bulking tips for your weight gain journey

The Sporting

Beginning your bulk - 8 Tips for bulking that worked for me. Bulking Tips to help with your weight gain journey So before you read on, let me make it clear that I have been in your position, and I’m in it again myself right now. I have lost a load of weight because of Coronavirus and gyms being closed. However, I am starting my bulk now, and over the years I have done a few, so these bulking tips are from experience.

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Concept Curriculum: Leading Meaningful Change in PE CPD at The KIA Oval, Jan 2023

PE Scholar

Book now for the Concept Curriculum: Leading Meaningful Change in PE event at The KIA Oval, London, UK on Monday 16th January 2023.

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Montessori Physical Education and Tomorrow's Child Magazine

Montessori Physical Education

Thanksgiving gives us time to be with friends and family. For educators, we get a much-needed break. However, we can't help thinking about our educational practices even when we are supposed to be resting. For our classroom teachers, it is conference time, which allows us time to reflect on our students and our own instruction. One of these topics is how to increase Social and Emotional Learning in our classroom.

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Warning as PE ‘Squeezed Out’ for Exam Students

Association for Physical Education

23/11/2022 Curriculum and accountability pressures in schools have resulted in a 20% fall in allocated PE lessons for GCSE students, research suggests. Subject leads in schools surveyed as part of […]. The post Warning as PE ‘Squeezed Out’ for Exam Students appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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The 28 top goal scorers in football history

The Sporting

The top goalscorers in the history of Football: All of these footballers have scored 500 goals or more playing at a professional level There are 28 footballers who have scored more than 500 goals in their career, and remarkably, 3 of them are still playing. These are, without doubt, the top goalscorers in football history. Some of the statistics are a little bit questionable, and also times have changed in terms of the number of games played, and the quality of the opposition etc.

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How Listening to Students Can Increased Enjoyment in PE

PE Scholar

Lee Sullivan explains how listening to students can improve student enjoyment in every physical education lesson.

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HOLIDAY BUNDLE – 3 Pack of challenges for kids to do throughout the HOLIDAY SEASON!

Keeping Kids in Motion

Holiday Bundle 3-Pack includes three cool activities for school and home. FiT WiTH LiT BINGO – Students alternate between reading and exercise challenges throughout the holiday season. FiT WiTH LiT includes the challenge, a blank template to create your BINGO card and a participation.

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Sure Breaking Limits Programme – For Primary and Secondary Schools

Association for Physical Education

23/11/2022 Sure Breaking Limits by The National Schools Partnership is a new curriculum-linked initiative equipping pupils aged 9-14 across the UK with the confidence to move by making it fun, […]. The post Sure Breaking Limits Programme – For Primary and Secondary Schools appeared first on Association for Physical Education - Association For Physical Education | P.E.

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Escrima - Filipino Martial Art

The Sporting

What is the Filipino Martial Art of Escrima? Learn about the martial art of Escrima, also known as Arnis, including its history, styles, technique and weaponry. There are around 200 known types of martial arts on Earth. Some, like BJJ, Karate, and Muay Thai , are well-known and are utilised by countless practitioners. However, many are underrated; either because their usage is limited to a certain region, or they’re not of much use.

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KS3 Rugby Student Worksheets

PE Scholar

These KS3 Rugby Skills Worksheets provide 5 student tasks for each skill. The skills include Pass, Evade & Attack Space, Tackle and Defend.

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sports equal…choice.

Every Kids Sports

Why youth sports are important to me By Arch Fuston, Board President, Every Kid Sports. Sport is one of the many constants we can have in our lives. It can be a refuge. It can be a social hub. It can be an outlet. More often than not, it’s all of those and more. Two that I have an affinity for are the boundless nature of sports and the opportunity they provide to train our inner athlete. .

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What Silent Messages are You Sending to your Children in Your Body Language?

RC Families

Every day you are sending silent messages through your body language to your kids in the form of non-verbal communication. Psychologist Albert Mehrabian published a book about it in the 1970s and his conclusion was this: When it comes to credibility, Mehrabian found that we assign 55% of the weight to body language, 35% to. Read More.

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Streetfighter 2 - From the arcade to the living room and beyond

The Sporting

Street Fighter 2 and the growth of fighting games in esports The frantic clicking of the buttons. The furious rolling of arcade sticks. The bated breath of onlookers. This was the atmosphere you’d find yourself in from the moment you set foot in a 90s arcade. Such a captivating setting could describe a lot of titles emblazoned above the flickering cabinets but there was one that drew in the bigger crowds: Street Fighter 2.

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Perceptions of Contextual Stressors in Physical Education: A Qualitative Case Study

PE Scholar

Research exploring students' stressors in PE and highlights the volume and variety of potential stressors in PE contexts.

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Herbal Astragalus to Promote Immune Health

Designs for Health

For more than 2,000 years, astragalus ( Astragalus membranaceus ) has been considered to be one of the most important and widely used adaptogenic herbs in traditional Chinese medicine. More than 100 compounds in astragalus have been identified to hold clinical significance in vivo or in vitro, including flavonoids, saponins, polysaccharides, and amino acids.

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Anne Frank's Biography!

Delamere Academy

The children have worked so well on their first draft.

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Grenade! Reviewing every flavour Grenade Carb Killa Protein Bar

The Sporting

Nutrition: Which pin to pull? We review every flavour Grenade Carb Killa protein bar. In the complicated and faux science world of protein bars, only Grenade has elevated its product to a place that no protein bar has gone before: The supermarket checkout shelf…but which Carb Killa flavour is the best? btw this is not a sponsored post. Yes, protein bars have been available in supermarkets, but they are normally tucked away in a dark corner with energy bars and sports gels.

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How to engage a community and keep them moving, with tmactive

My Zone

A much catchier name, tmactive is short for Tonbridge and Malling Leisure Trust. This charitable, not-for-profit company is in partnership with the local council to bring, among other things, exciting opportunities for movement to more people.

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Physical Activity vs. Movement: Consider Both For Your After School Program

Skillastics

Words can ignite certain feelings in us. These feelings are usually connected to experiences we’ve had at some point in our lives. For instance, the word family may mean something totally different to two people, depending upon each individual’s experiences. Movement is defined as changing the position of one’s body parts relative to each other. Physical activity is defined as intentional voluntary movement directed toward achieving a goal.

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Personalized System of Instruction in Physical Education

PLT4M

Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. In this article, Sean explores a personalized system of instruction model for fitness and weight training classes. Be on the lookout for lots of great content from Sean as he helps take the academic angle of physical education best practices.

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The Roberto Clemente The Public Never Knew

The Sporting

A profile of the real Roberto Clemente Roberto Clemente, the man, as told by fellow ball-players and those that knew him best In the 1950s and ‘60s, most of what baseball fans knew about their home team players came from the sportswriters they read. In the case of Puerto Rican and other Latino players, much of what was written was mean-spirited and demeaning, caricaturing those players’ cultural differences and language hurdles more than their struggles and successes as color-segregated major le

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Faculty Spotlight: Pelle Kvalsund

MSU

Welcome to the SCLA Faculty, Pelle! Pelle is a happy spouse and father of two active boys in a family that spans three continents. He has a deep love for people, culture, food, and of sport, play and physical activity. As a former high-performance athlete in Norway, he learned how the connection between coaches and athletes impacts the players sport experience and performance.

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Botanicals to Support the Endothelial Glycocalyx and Vascular Health

Designs for Health

Emerging research has been exploring the relationship between vascular health, certain botanicals, and the endothelial glycocalyx (EGX). The EGX is the first line of defense in the vessel walls. It is a thin gel-like layer that lines the endothelium — the layer of vessel walls that separates the tissue from the circulating blood. Every artery, vein, and capillary is lined with the EGX, which consists of a mesh of glycoproteins , proteoglycans, glycosaminoglycans, and plasma proteins.

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